Franc Rozman

Franc Rozman (27 March 1911-7 November 1944) was a Slovene partisan leader during World War II.

Biography
Franz Rozman was born on 27 March 1911 in Spodnje Pirnice, Carniola, Austria-Hungary to a family of Slovenes. Rozman volunteered to serve with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, commanding a battalion of Republican Spain's army against the fascist Nationalist Spain. When Yugoslavia was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in early 1941, he was sentenced to a forced labor camp, but he later escaped and joined the Slovene Partisans. He died in an accident in 1944 when a PIAT that the British Army shipped to his partisans malfunctioned.